I let the weeds grow around my square foot boxes and I paid for it - in lettuce. One of my squares had a couple heads of lettuce eaten down to the dirt. I also saw slug trails on my kale. I wasn't too worried about the weeds around my boxes until I pulled up one of the taller weeds and spotted a slug resting beneath it. As I started to pull up more weeds, I found more slugs.
Hopefully pulling up the weeds will solve some of my slug problems. I also laid some crushed egg shells around the lettuce squares.
The forecast today was for rain but the morning was beautiful - even hot! The chickens loved their fresh weeds - after some scratching, some of them settled into the weeds to cool off (I think).
Today there was a creature in the garden that I've never seen in the gardens before...and I've never seen one in the day either.
A little bat! I thought it might be hurt because it just flew a short distance and then laid in the dirt. But, it eventually flew away.
